Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Ralph Thurston <thurstonessays@yahoo.com>]

I've hauled in "milorganite" from the local waste
treatment plant (it's low in heavy metals) but I was
wondering if worms would "improve" it before I
incorporated it into the soil. I don't have a warm
place to keep worms--one of the questions I would have
had--but I assumed there might be some lo-tech way to
keep them warm, as surely the compost itself would
generate some heat. I don't use cover crops, as I drip
irrigate and there is no surety that we would have
enough fall rain to bring up a cover crop, and I would
be left with seeds on the ground in the spring which
would be the equivalent of weeds (unwanted, in other
words). My ground is very clean and I do not want any
extra work. 

--- TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net> wrote:

> 
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> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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> On 12/5/2007 at 11:25 PM Liz wrote:
> 
> >At 03:26 PM 12/5/2007, you wrote:
> >>Why vermicompost rather than any other kind of
> compost? In a 
> >>snowy-winter climate, I'd be concerned about how
> to keep the worm 
> >>boxes protected from the cold for several months.
> Do you have a barn 
> >>or other building that stays warm enough to keep
> worms alive in the
> >winter?
> >
> >One of the reasons I'm interested in
> vermicomposting is precisely 
> >because of wanting to compost during the cold
> weather. I hope to get 
> >one of the plastic bin type composters. I'm going
> to have to figure 
> >out how to keep ants out of it (water-filled dish
> under each leg, or 
> >something like that).
> >
> >Liz in SW VA
> >http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com 
> >
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